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That One Person Quotes (page 17)

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. Albert Einstein
That is why each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden--forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vise versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other... Herman Hesse
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others Allen Ginsberg
One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to a power hierarchy and fits itself neatly, obediently into the one that promises the most personal benefits. Here is the Achille? heel of armies, police and bureaucracies. Frank Herbert
One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war. Laurell K. Hamilton
One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well. Lev Yilmaz
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time. Idries Shah
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it. Elmer Bernstein
Louis L'Amour quote: "One thing has always been true: That book or that person who..."
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend. Louis L'Amour
Jodi Picoult quote: "That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me,..."
That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person Jodi Picoult
That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it. Luke Wilson
One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century. Sanford I. Weill
One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them. Steve Case
One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and that's because I am a very free person. Lil' Kim
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns..."
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. Robert A. Heinlein

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